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Office of Audits and Performance seeks to expand audit coverage, sustain training and publish employee survey
Summary
Leslie Jones, director of the Office of Audits and Performance, presented a modestly reduced 2026 budget and said the office will pursue at least a 25% expansion in audit coverage, continue its indie performance training program and publish the enterprise employee survey results by year end.
Leslie Jones, director of the Office of Audits and Performance, and Deputy Director Vivian Agnew presented the office’s 2026 proposed budget and highlighted plans to expand audit coverage, continue enterprise training and finalize an employee survey conducted this summer.
Jones said the office has nine authorized positions and was actively recruiting for a senior auditor; staffing stood at eight during the presentation. The office provides two complementary functions: a small audit team that performs performance audits under government auditing standards, and a performance-innovation team that conducts training in lean methods, data literacy and Power BI. Jones said the performance team has trained 42 employees across 23 departments this year and offered 745 staff hours of performance-management training year to date; the office launched a virtual lean training this year to widen access.
Key 2026 goals include at least a 25% expansion in audit coverage measured by units (the office expects to increase engagements from seven units in the prior period to at least nine), maintaining performance training participation (measured in training hours) and continuing to support enterprise culture-change efforts, including the city-county employee survey. Agnew said the employee survey closed recently and that the consultant will conduct focus groups; Jones said the office expects a final report by the end of the year.
On budget specifics, the office proposed a total budget just under $1.95 million — a $55,727 reduction from the 2025 budget achieved largely through reallocating character-1 and character-3 funds and by using vacancy savings to support the employee-survey work. Jones said the office preserved roughly $10,000 for staff continuing-education expenses.
Jones and Agnew emphasized collaborative approaches and cross‑agency engagement, and noted results from the inaugural indie performance symposium, which showcased staff-developed Power BI work and process-improvement projects. The office said it will stand up an internal intranet page to make audit and performance resources more accessible and may later expand the page for public-facing reporting.
